Improvement in wash-boilers



NETE@ STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. KINNEAR, OF UPPER SANDUSKY, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASH-BOILERS.

Speciication forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,024, dated August 15, 1871 autedated August 4, 1871.

To all whom It may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. KINNEAR, of Upper Sandusky, in the county of Wyandot and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improved Vashing-Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following' is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to which my .invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being' had to the accompanying drawing making part of this specification, and to the letters and iigures marked thereon.

My invention relates to that class of washingapparatus in which a stream of hot water is forced from a boiler upward through a tube and discharged upon the clothes, passing through them, and falling into the boiler again; and it consists in the peculiar' construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter' particularly described.

In the drawing', Figure l is a side view of my improvement, represented upon the top ofa stove or furnace. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal Vertical section.

A represents a shallow steam-tight chamber, which may be of any suitable form, either circular or oval, having the bottom formed so as to iit in the opening' on the top of an ordinary cooking-stove, or a stove or furnace made for the eX- press purpose, as shown at A in Fig. 1. Near one end of the chamber A, rigidly attached to it by means of suitable braces, is a tub, B, in the bottom of which, at the center, is a pipe, O, comnumicatin g with the top ofthe chamber A. Near the pipe G is anotherpipe, D, also connecting the tub B and chamber A, but passing down nearly to the bottom of the chamber A. Resting on the bottom of the tub B is a concave-convex plate, G, from the center of which rises a tapering pipe, E. The plate D is notched or perforated around its edge to permit the flow of water. At the upper end of the pipe E is a double-convex chamber, F, provided With four or more tubes, f, projecting downward from the lower side.

The water is placed in the boiler or chamber A 'in sufficient quantity to nearly but not quite fill it. The clothes are placed in the tub B, rest ing on the plate G. As the water becomes heated the pressureA of steam between the surface of the water and the top of the boiler forces the water up through the pipe E and through the chamber F and tubes f, from which it is discharged upon the clothes, soaking through them,

and passing through the notches or periorations.

in the plate G, and through the pipe D to the bottom of the boiler or chamber A.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The shallow steam-tight boiler or chamber A with pipes O and D, in combination with the tub B, plate G, pipe E, chamber F, and tubes f, all constructed and arranged as herein shown and described.

WM. E. KINNEAR. Witnesses:

D. D. HARE, F. WENINGER. 

